First electronic version of this vintage of artwork and philosophy, now in a searchable format.

'The writings which compose Paul Klee's thought of formproduction and pictorial shape have an identical value andthe similar which means for contemporary artwork as had Leonardo's writingswhich composed his concept of portray for Renaissance art.Like the latter, they don't represent a real and propertreatise, that's to assert a suite of stylistic and technicalrules, yet are the results of an introspective research whichthe artist engages in in the course of his paintings and within the mild of theexperience of truth which involves him within the direction ofhis paintings. This research which accompanies and controls theformation of a piece of artwork is an important component to theartistic strategy, the purpose and the finality of that are broughtto gentle via it . . .'

So writes Giulio Carlo Argan in his Preface to this firstvolume of Klee's notebooks. The spine of his Bauhauscourses was once supplied by way of the lecture notes contained in'Contributions to a idea of Pictorial shape' that are herepublished of their entirety. From greater than 2,500 pages of thenotebooks (consisting of memoranda, educating projects,constructive drawings, and sketches for his photographs) it hasbeen attainable to reconstruct extra classes of instruction.Also integrated are the 'Creative Credo', 'Ways of NatureStudy', the Jena lecture of 1924 and the essay' ExactExperiments within the Realm of Art'.

The quantity encompasses a superb choice of over onethousand drawings which illustrate the notes, in addition as188 half-tone illustrations, 8 of those reproduced in complete colour.

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